[mythtv-users] LIRC on Fedora 18 (I realise slightly off list topic)

[Another Sillyname]

I finally got to the bottom of the problem.......

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=881976

In a nutshell the Fedora implementation of lirc is not correctly
picking up the device and driver settings from /etc/sysconfig file as
it should.

There would appear to be a patch in the works that should fix it,
until then I'm manually running the lircd file with hardcoded
settings......

Thanks for everyones help

On 13 May 2013 08:27, Russell Gower <mythtv at thegowers.me.uk> wrote:
>
> On 12 May 2013, at 22:16, Another Sillyname <anothersname at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Martin
>>
>> I had a look at your configs and still no go.......
>>
>> I even tried......
>>
>> lircd -n --device=/dev/input/event5 --driver=devinput
>>
>> which loads into a non daemon mode so i can watch any output
>>
>> if I then run irw in another terminal session the session running
>> lircd outputs:-
>>
>> lircd-0.9.0[3589]: lircd(devinput) ready, using /var/run/lirc/lircd
>> lircd-0.9.0[3589]: accepted new client on /var/run/lirc/lircd
>> lircd-0.9.0[3589]: initializing '/dev/input/event5'   <-----   When
>> irw is fired up
>> lircd-0.9.0[3589]: removed client
>> lircd-0.9.0[3589]: closing '/dev/input/event5'     <------When irw is CTL-C'd
>>
>> which would seem to me to indicate that lircd is listening on the correct path
>>
>> However no infra red commands are 'seen' by irw.
>>
>> Anyone else have any other ideas?
>
>
> Hi,
>   I made the switch to Fedora 18 back in April so my memory is a little hazy on the detail, I remember it took me quite a few hours of head scratching to get it working but in the end I think it boiled down to changing the ExecStart line in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/lirc.service to read
>
>         ExecStart=/usr/sbin/lircd -H devinput -d /dev/input/by-id/usb-Philips_eHome_Infr ared_Transceiver_PH00NN95-event-if00
>
>  You'd obviously have to amend the device path to match.
>
> I also copied the /etc/lirc/lircd.conf file from my previous Centos 6.2 system, I can provide it if required but I suspect it was just one of the samples supplied by the lirc packages.
>
> Regards
>   Russell
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